New York

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  • 1524

    Giovanni Verrazano discovers the Bay of New York

  • Henry Hudson, sailed up the Hudson River

  • the Dutch founded the first permanent trading post

  • the first governor bought the island of Manhattan from the Native Americans.

  • Nieuw Amsterdam is founded as a city

  • English conquered Nieuw Amsterdam and baptized as New York

  • The first shipyard opened

  • The first newspaper the New York Gazette began publication

  • The first theater in New York opened

  • The War of Independence begins.

  • New York becomes the capital of the United States.

  • cholera struck

  • Fire destroyed much of the old district of New York

  • the Telegraph

  • Harlem was connected to New York by railway

  • cholera struck

  • cholera struck

  • The fall of Wall Street

  • Brooklyn Bridge opened

  • Statue of Liberty was unveiled

  • Period: to

    the main industry in New York was milling

  • The Flat Iron Building was built

  • It Is celebrated for the first time at the end of the year in time square

  • New York Public Library opened

  • The Museum of the city of New York was founded

  • Dark Tuesday

  • the Empire State Building was erected

  • Period: to

    The Rockefeller Center was built

  • Period: to

    large numbers of Asians migrated to the city

  • tragedy struck when the World Trade Center was destroyed in a terrorist attack

  • Huracane Irene

  • Huracane Sandy